Sunday, September 15, 2013

EndNote Citation Manager Update

EndNote citation manager has made new changes by marketing the web version as being free. I imagine that the reason is to be in competition with other free citation managers, such as Zotero, Mendeley, and others (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_reference_management_software).  The web version used to be called EndNote Web.  The new name is EndNote Basic.  The new EndNote Basic provides 2 GB of storage which is comparable to Zotero.

EndNote recently released a free app for the iPad, but the app works only for users who have the EndNote program for the Mac and Windows PC (the purchased version) account.  The most recent version of the stand alone app is X7. 

EndNote Basic provides add-on extensions for the Firefox and Chrome web browsers (probably others, too).  The add-on provides an option to save the citation to MyEndnote.com or Endnote.  When experimenting with it today, I noted that it correctly grabbed the name of the Wikipedia page comparing reference management software, but it did not find the name of the page comparing EndNote Basic with EndNote at http://endnote.com/basic.  I had avoided using the web version previously because it often crashed when I chose the option to capture to the desktop EndNote program.  It did not crash this morning.

Although I was able to capture from a couple of webpages today, it was still annoying.  I had changed the setting on the web version to indicate that the citation was for a webpage, but when I imported the citations to EndNote desktop app, the citations were imported as journal articles.

There are many tutorials for using EndNote on YouTube.  One example is the video below.

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